Cypress Poems - Poems about Cypress

...I started chopping, one by one the non gratae parts of my Temple, while unbeknownst to me pebbles were already spreading whispers in all directions. Shh..don’t speak so loud You might as well ......Read the rest...

...I sleep to visit You in Your dreams, oh my Esteemed - a gauche novitiate, there like a Laureate You receive me to learn Your secrets, there wisdom is served like as one planted, ......Read the rest...

...Note: This poem is the twin poem for "She Speaks for the Dead." This one is in the mockingbird's perspective. I perch upon the locked gate, awaiting the deepest hour of night. My abode is ......Read the rest...

...We are partly into an early Spring and the horses' struts with their heads held up. White Palominos all, majestic beauties they'd be in the heart of the little village passing by the central square......Read the rest...

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With noiseless step sweet memory comes and leads me gently through her twilight realms. What poet’s tune has ever sung or delicate pencil ever portrayed the encha......Read the rest...

... Memory still anoints them, glowing in the ashes of childhood. The cypress trees in the parkland at the end of the street. Tall, knotted ladders to the heavens where a child’s outstretched han......Read the rest...

... Written: November 14, 2023 For Robert James Liguori _____________________________________ Sitting in my comfy chair with my injured knees Insouciant spent time......Read the rest...

...Spanish Moss hangs over my face a gentle caress green filaments brush my hair. The flat-bottomed boat glides on a slow current but it pushes me, it urges - but to where? Florida has a lot of......Read the rest...

...Written: September 17, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ In the misty, morbid moors of winter mantle, Meadows lay barren in gray shades and prattle.......Read the rest...

...A feast of eye-catching hues swirl midair, stoic fragile leaf a chill whisper, overt orange, deep vein red, pallid yellow, scaly amber, jumble upon bright clad jumble, earthbound mattress on a g......Read the rest...

...Cypress trees like evergreen steeples rise above rows of gravestone woes, their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties across writhing paths banded like snakes; the gravel birth cords sinuo......Read the rest...

...The Met* has an exhibit, Cypress paintings by Van Gogh. We joined the crowds and went to see This most amazing show. Like all the other patrons, We snapped photos on our phones, Except for on......Read the rest...

...An old man plods slowly down the rutted middle Of an ancient dusty country lane, unmindful of his steps. His calloused sandaled feet know the way, As he has trodden this path to market for decades......Read the rest...

...~wayward travels two men mixed greenery sun moonlight dark back ground life~ 7/18/23 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©......Read the rest...

...At day's end, I take in the last light seeping into the dark waters across the bay and keep it here. I gather the sound of departing gulls smudged on the sky, the quietening settle of birds in t......Read the rest...